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The Baumol fallacy, from an historian’s view
Time to hike up my trousers and wade into some intellectual flotsam. In my entry on the politics of Scott Walker's anti-unionism, there's a comment demi-thread about the Baumol "cost-disease" argument started by Glen McPhee that I want to bring into a main entry, because the fallacy embedded in it is similar to Tyler Cowen's argument […]
Larry Cuban honors David Tyack
Anyone who has read Tinkering toward Utopia may recall Cuban's language in today's blog entry as familiar from the prefatory material in Tinkering. David Tyack retired a number of years ago, as did Cuban, and he was honored at last fall's History of Education Society meeting at the end of the presidential address by Jon […]
“Teachers college” was always a misnomer
Kevin Carey writes about the dilemmas of regional state universities that used to be teachers colleges. There are real dilemmas of upward institutional trajectories/ambitions, and in many cases, there are institutions that have moved in the way he has, such as Illinois State University, where the city of Normal, Illinois reveals its origins as Illinois […]
Sheldon and Jeremy Stern reply
A few days ago I responded to the Fordham report assigning letter grades to state social-studies standards (from the perspective of the reviewers' beliefs about history curriculum). The report authors, Sheldon and Jeremy Stern, replied by email through Mike Petrilli, and you can read their response at the bottom of my original entry.
Why the “disrupting college” argument doesn’t stick
The Center for American Progress has released Clay Christensen's latest spinoff argument, Disrupting College. Kevin Carey has some smart observations at Ed Sector's Quick and Ed blog. I had a different visceral reaction to the 80-page pamphlet: meh. Not from a "oh dear oh me oh my the sky is falling" angle but "sheesh, this is what Christensen thinks […]